Father, husband and guitar nerd. Leadership, Hypergrowth and Startup Enthusiast. Founding partner, @RefineryVC. Founder, @ShareThis.
Cincinnati, OH
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7M+ tasks per month, ~5K DAGs, 2K+ engineers with self-service access.
That's @Lyft's production ML backbone, on Airflow, running demand forecasting, dynamic pricing, and fraud detection for their entire marketplace.
Software Engineer Julia Lu will present how they orchestrate it all at scale as part of Orchestrate Everything. One of five sessions from teams at Ramp, Mercor, Wix, Aampe, and more, running real production AI on Airflow.
Sept 16, virtual and free to join. Register now: bit.ly/4gkvWMX
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NEWS: Folio Photonics raises $8 million to scale optical archive storage in Solon
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We closed our Series F today at a $13B valuation.
Our inference business grew 20x in the last year. I want to explain why:
The growth comes from a shift I think is permanent: companies want to own their intelligence layer. Instead of relying exclusively on closed models, teams are post-training open models for their specific use cases. Customers like Abridge, Cursor, Decagon, Harvey, HubSpot, Lovable, Notion, OpenEvidence, and Parallel are building this way.
But post-training is still more of an art than a science. That’s why we’ve been working hands-on with customers to build specialized models that match or exceed closed models on the tasks they care about. We provide not just the weights, but also the training recipes and tooling so that they're in charge of the continual learning process.
I think more companies, both AI-natives and enterprises, will own their intelligence layer. And I’m excited to help build that future.
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FULL INTERVIEW: Poetic Founder & CEO @markiewagner joins TBPN to discuss the company's $50M Series A, the "10,000 secret rules" that run businesses, and more.
2:23 - The 10,000 secret rules inside employees' heads
3:03 - Why AI needs to be at least 99.99% accurate
4:20 - Why Poetic started working with giant companies instead of smaller companies
5:27 - How Poetic extracts unwritten knowledge from experts
7:50 - Markie on the future of forward deployed engineers
9:47 - Why most enterprise AI deployments fail
12:06 - Markie's Stanford dropout origin story
Introducing @PoeticHQ: a new AI system that executes complex multi-hour tasks with 99%+ accuracy and 10x fewer tokens than agents.
We raised $50M at $500M from Kleiner Perkins, Founders Fund, First Harmonic, and Genius Ventures to build AI that does complex work inside Fortune 500 companies without hallucination.
While code is too brittle, agents are too unpredictable. The work that runs the global economy - anti-money laundering, fraud investigations, underwriting - needs extreme accuracy.
So we built a new kind of software that pairs the flexibility of AI with the predictability of code.
When the world stays the same, Poetic runs fixed code: fast, cheap, identical every time. When the world changes, Poetic uses AI to regenerate its approach and find its way back to the objective.
In one year, we went from zero to an eight-figure run rate as a team of four.
Since then, we’ve scaled the team and executed the highest-stakes processes at AIG, SoFi, and Chime. At SoFi, a large US bank, Poetic reached 99%+ quality on fraud investigations in five weeks.
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It doesn’t get any more clear than this
CBS affiliated local 12 news in Cincinnati, Ohio reporting the ICE protest demanding ICE be completely abolished is paid and organized
🚨 “Organized by the Cincinnati branch of the Party for Socialism and Liberation”
The Party for Socialism and Liberation is funded by CCP connected billionaire Neville Roy Singham living in China
He is the one funding the nationwide protests for ICE
- Singham’s residence in Shanghai
- His business ties are to the CCP
- He attends CCP-related events
- He funds media outlets echoing Chinese state narratives
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It’s absurd that we’re going to have universal self driving cars but somehow trains that have a single degree of freedom require not one but two operators.
Train agencies regularly run fewer trains than they have because of staffing requirements like this. Unsurprising bc this is a job no one should want. To everyone who complains about the low frequency on the T — this is why. We have the trains we don’t have the drivers.
Automate the trains, run em at 1 min frequency, build more dense transit connected housing, and everyone will benefit, including workers from the abundance of new opportunities that will emerge.
Some of the most labor-friendly places in the world already do this eg Paris. this is not rocket science.
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The Golden Age is here: US GDP Growth surges to 4.3% in Q3, shattering expectations of 3.3%. Meanwhile, CPI is down to 2.7%, beating expectations of 3.1%. And with interest rates and taxes coming down, the table is set for an even better 2026. Thank you President Trump! 🚀🚀🚀
Kudlow is right: inflation is coming down, interest rates are coming down, and tax cuts are coming in 2026. These are the conditions for a Reagan-like economic boom. Just as important, we have an AI investment super-cycle driving an extra 2% of GDP growth. Democrats like Bernie Sanders have figured this out, so they are doing everything they can to sabotage the infrastructure build-out. Republicans should not be gaslit about this. As with Climate Change, most of the concerns have been amplified to hoax level.
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Americans are more generous than ever.
Adjusting for both inflation and population growth, real per capita charitable giving in the US has doubled since the 1970s.
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Nineteen Eighty-Four and Twenty Twenty-Five: A condensed version of my Orwell lecture from last night, just published in The Times.
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Excellent list of best practices re the weekly CEO email from the one and only @nrmehta, who’s followed this for TWENTY years (1000 weeks!) without missing a week, and seen the compounding effects.
Investor @gokulr recently had a great post about the value of weekly founder/CEO emails to the company. I've sent a Sunday night email to the various teams/companies I've run every week since 2006. Here are some things I learned:
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The President is right. A 50-state patchwork is a startup killer. Federal AI legislation is essential. There’s no bigger issue for Little Tech — the builders who create the future, for America.
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🚨NEW: John Fetterman *STUNS* CNN's Dana Bash by telling her how Left crueler than Right🚨
FETTERMAN: "The Right would say really rough things and names ... but on the Left, it was like they want me to die or that 'We're cheering for your next stroke' ... they even have a gif where they have a stroke in your head."
BASH: "Oh my gosh!"
@DailyCaller
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I'm thrilled to share that @onkernel has raised $22M in Seed + Series A funding from @Accel with participation from @ycombinator @cintrifuse @vercel @svangel @RefineryVC @paulg @zeeg @charliermarsh & more 🚀
@rfgarcia and I started Kernel because LLMs can now automate any computer work — yet cloud infrastructure remains the biggest challenge holding developers back from adopting it at scale.
We’re already powering workflows for co’s including @CashApp @rye + countless start-ups.
And we’re just getting started 🧵
